matok Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Greetings to all members of this esteemed forum and thank you in advance for your response(s). As a medical student and during my residency training, it was routine to administer vitamin k to every newborn. However, it appears the practice is being abandoned in my part of the world. What is the position in your country regarding this practice? In addition to your responses, if there are recent material(s) to support the position in your country or locality, I will be glad to have have them. Looking forward to hearing from as many members as possible. Dr Okposio Matthias Nigeria 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Johansson Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 I guess nothing has changed from a medical point of view, i.e. universal vitamin K prophylaxis is recommended. There is a relatively new position paper by ESPGHAN, here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27050049 ( if you need the paper in full-text, try http://unpaywall.org/ ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matok Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 Thanks Stefan . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Hanifah Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Agreed, we still give vit. K to all our newborn in Malaysia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vijayashankara Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 We still use Vitamin K prophylaxis for all our in hospital births. Most of private hospitals and nursing home do follow the recommendation. Home deliveries not attended by a healthcare worker may miss out on this. This is picture in India. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matok Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 Thank you to Drs Hanifah and Vijayashankara for your responses. With these, I can now continue my advocacy for routine administration of vitamin k to all our newborns. There has been an unexpected increased in cases of vitamin k deficiency bleeding (VKDB) in my local hospital which also serves as a referral centre for smaller public and private hospitals and clinics. On further inquiry, it was discovered that routine vitamin k administration was not being done, no reason was given for their non use of vitamin k, some actually think it made no difference with regards to the occurrence of VKDB. The good news though is that progress is being made. Thank you once more for the responses . Dr Okposio, Delta State Nigeria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvegamontes1 Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 En Mexico si utilizamos la Vitamina K rutinariamente, en algunas ocasiones se ha agotado la vitamina k parenteral y vemos casos de Enfermedad hemorragica del recien nacido que practicamente cuando existe no las vemos, por lo que en cierto momento hasta vitamina K oral hemos utilizado.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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